News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 66

PANAMA CITY, Nov 18 (IPS) - An increase in the number of conditions placed by the United States on Panama's entry to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), caused expressions of concern from the local business sector on Friday.

SAN JOSE, Nov 18 (IPS) - The Brazilian army is back on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, 15 years after being sent back to barracks at the end of two decades of military dictatorship.

PARIS, Nov 18 (IPS) - In a rare decision Tanzanian officials postponed their pleas for nearly one billion dollars in additional aid until they can deal with an urgent domestic problem -- that of raging corruption.

AMSTERDAM, Nov 18 (IPS) - Member state ministers of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), meeting in Bali, Indonesia on Monday are expected to agree to hold maximum output ceiling targets steady for 1995.

CAIRO, Nov 18 (IPS) - The former head of the christian Lebanese Forces is due go on trial in Beirut Saturday for the bombing of a church north of the capital earlier this year and the killing in 1990 of a another prominent Christian leader Danny Chamoun.

HONG KONG, Nov 18 (IPS) - Hong Kong is known the world over as a shopper's paradise, but for those who hold jobs here, the tiny British colony is little else than a workplace from hell.

BEIJING, Nov 18 (IPS) - For the financially hard-pressed Beijing Municipal officials, the new five-figure registration fee for new residents of the city is a way to control and curb the human wave of migrants from the countryside.

BANGKOK, Nov 18 (IPS) - Sorayuth Sihapong was already an avid fan of Hindi films while he was growing up in a small village in southern Thailand.

BANGKOK, Nov 18 (IPS) - A perceptible shift in the international community's attitude toward Burma has followed two meetings between senior members of the country's military junta and detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

SRINAGAR, Nov 18 (IPS) - AFTER DARK SRINAGAR, CAPITAL OF NORTHERN INDIAN KASHMIR, BEGINS RESEMBLING A GHOST TOWN AS SECURITY FORCES AND KASHMIRI SEPARATISTS HUNKER DOWN FOR ANOTHER NIGHT OF CONFRONTATION IN A DISASTROUS FIVE-YEAR OLD CIVIL WAR.